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Originally posted here by ZT3000 It's also a perfect example of why people should finish school and perhaps go on to college.

I was thinking exactly the same thing! I'm no math expert and I can come up with a better scheme than that!

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Well if you ask me 40 yrs is a pretty darn good record of evading the polizia, so they couldn't have been too clued in to his encryption techniques...maybe the cops should go back to school....

Also known as "Binnu u tratturi" (Binnu the tractor) because of his reputation for mowing down people in his youth, Provenzano had been on the run for more than 40 years, many of them spent writing cryptograms on little pieces of paper, known in Sicilian dialect as pizzini.

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
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Originally posted here by Jareds411 Hahaha his "encrpytion" was assigning a number to each letter. I'm quite surprised it got cracked.

yeah, it is easy enough to break when you know what you are looking for (I'm guessing that the Italian police didn't in the beginning). If he really wanted to be secure he should have used one time pads. The police would have never broken that...

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